Which certification??

[satan194p]

^^
I am going to think upon replies and then make my decision. I am in college so i am not much aware of market trends and all. I thought you people are working so you would be able to give me some valuable advice.

[ambar_hitman]

@satan and warun, your situation is exactly like mine was. I hated electronics, still I chose it in my BE (I switched from Comps to EnTE after a month when seat became vacant, BIG MISTAKE). I always wanted to come in IT, didn't care I will code or not, just wanted to be in IT. I absolutely hated the Embeded Systems, VLSI crap, transistors, diodes, triodes, AND, OR, NOT gates, Microprocessors (I was terrific in assembly language programming though), Transmission lines etc etc. These subjects never EVER got my attention, and I would have failed miserably if I had taken a job in the same. I did alright academically, but my marks in Computer related subjects like OOPS, Data Structures were much higher.
Now if you guys have decided to join IT, then do some courses in spare time, learn SQL, little bit of OOPS concepts, Java. Certifications are easy, dumps are available, so dont worry about that. This will atleast bring you to the level of fellow Comps/IT guys when you join IT. Trust me, when you join as a fresher, you feel that the Comps/IT guys are way ahead of you, because SQL etc is part of their BE. When I was new, I didnt know a single thing about SQL, and few Comps guys in our batch were showing off initially, and we had to study harder than them to pass training courses. It doesnt matter much though, in few months we got accustomed and got way ahead of them, but we had to apply ourselves more. So a little bit of reading about SQL or doing a small course will help.

And yes, the programming isnt simple or fun, but if you are interested in it and develop right attitude, you will survive. And always think about money, its abundant in IT. I earn more than twice than my friends who took the job in core sector. My ME friend who joined IT, is onsite for two years, and he earns 2.5lacs per month. Just enter the field with readiness to do any kind of work, and adjust well. I have seen people who crumbled under the pressure, people who lost it because they wanted exceptional work (you know those class toppers in college who think they are going to change the world by creating an OS or something, they should to MS and join US companies, Indian IT is not place for them), people who wasted their initial years in IT preparing for MBA not realizing that they are worth it, and people who adjusted to it and are literally printing money now.


And neo is right, any dumb guy can join IT and survive, but they face the music after 3-4 years. Their growth just stagnates. In IT, if a project has a team of 20 developers, then actually only 4-5 people do the work, and rest are dependent on them. If you become one of those 4-5, then you will have to work hard, but you will get the fruits, if you are one of those other 15, then you will enjoy initially, but later on you will struggle.

[neo_natasha]

Here's another thought: What makes you think joining an software company/IT industry will mean that you will be programming ? Not everyone does programming. Like other industries, there are various divisions - QC/QA {Quality Control / Quality Assurance } / Support / Infra Management / et al. Very few people actually get to be what are known as "core" developers. Quite a lot tend to be assigned to QC/QA - where you generally don't get program one bit. Ask Neo about pitfalls of QC/QA.

Yep. Not everyone gets to be a DEV. I was put into Quality Assurance or in other words TESTING though I was a BE CSE grad. I was a little cranky for the first year complaining about it but now I like this. But 90% still prefer dev to testing.

But in the end dev or testing or whatever if you dont know what the hell you doing in your project you can sit there for 100 years, know how to market yourself no worries at all !

[satan194p]

@ambar_hitman Thanks for your reply Cleared a lot of stuff up in my mind.

-- Tue Jun 08, 2010 11:52 pm --

Yep. Not everyone gets to be a DEV. I was put into Quality Assurance or in other words TESTING though I was a BE CSE grad.

I think most of the people in india get to do testing rather than development

[neo_natasha]

I think most of the people in india get to do testing rather than development

Nope. Thats not true. Infact people in india are in dev the most I would say. I dont think any other country has so many programmers

[ambar_hitman]

^Neo, testing domain in the company you are working is like a gold mine, lots of onsite opportunities, people with 6-8 months experience have got long term Onsite, I even requested a switch to Testing, but was SOL.

[neo_natasha]

Yeah I know. Gold mine or dirt bag mine whatever it is there is nothing in my project :P